Age of Nostalgia

Infatuation with a mythologized history has overtaken communities, cultures, entire regions, sending society and identity into a fun-house mirror of nostalgic reflections. This special issue brings you stories of people finding solace in pasts imagined and grieving for futures foreclosed in a time of existential threats.

Rewriting History
In Hungary, it’s Central Asia to the rescue
Rewriting History
When globalization was king and home was elsewhere
Rewriting History
Grieving California
Rewriting History
In the Khmer Rouge’s last stronghold, myths from the Cambodian genocide still reign